Thursday, April 21, 2005
Usual oatmeal breakfast. I happened upon Joel at 9th and Judah this morning, and we walked up the hill together. Patrick sent the Lodestar ad off today, so it's all done. I'm very happy with it, and Patrick is, too. At work it was more e-mail migration cleanup—some minor headaches. It seems to start getting manageable and then students appear in my inbox with more questions, many of which were already answered in the instructi0ns I had posted on the web or later in e-mail. Met with Susie about web issues. Lunch: 2 sandwiches of black forest ham, provolone, tarragon, mayo on multigrain; some lowfat cheese crunchies. Spent about 2 hours composing an e-mail asking someone at another department at UCSF why some issues that were brought up 9 months ago, then again 6 months ago, then again 3 months ago have not yet been resolved. I don't know what makes me think that the 4th time I ask they'll actually resolve them, but they did make some progress at the 6-month mark. I guess I'm still too new to know any better. Stopped at the shoe store this evening to exchange the rigid orthotics I bought last week for semi-rigid ones. My back pain is all gone, so I'm going to start slowly using the semi-rigid orthotics now. Dinner at home with Patrick: salmon burgers, wedge fries. Ginger and garlic steamed broccoli for me, Nicoise salad for Patrick. I wrote a letter to Jon S but couldn't send it due to a problem with Yahoo 360 (which I reported). Wore the new shoes for 75 minutes. We watched a Simpsons episode before bed: Summer of 4 Foot 2. Alice: "Won't you join our tea party? It would be ever so—Don't do it, Lisa! It's a trick! Run!" And Lisa talking to herself: "Okaaay. Not your fault. It's a bird thing. You don't control the birds. You will someday, but not now."